Specific Topics - Health and Safety

Specific Topics

Health and Safety

Reference Material / Books
Internet Links
Multimedia & Activity Pack

Reference Material / Books

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Internet Links

http://www.safety.com.au/civ.htm
Workplace Training in Australia (Competency based training courses)
This is a registered training organisation in Australia with a specific slant on training in safety in the workplace. All training courses are competency based and show some interesting methods for compiling and evaluating training.

http://www.safetyinfo.com/
This is an excellent website. Its features news articles, a site directory and site of the month recommendations. The TRAINING category useful, as it contains free examples of course outlines, handouts, safety talks and other information. Examples of handouts can be found at http://www.safetyinfo.com/checklists/extinguisher.htm and http://www.safetyinfo.com/forms/cs-logic-chart.htm. The site also contains an abundance of other information, for example written safety programs and photos which you can download, a safety database, information on audits, seminars and OSHA standards, and an online magazine. The overall site content is first class. It was named the "Star Safety Award Site" by www.safetyinfo.com.

http://www.ehso.com/
This Environmental Health & Safety Online site claims that it provides "Objective Free Information You Can Use!" Again it is one of the best websites, mainly because of its excellent content. It is split into eleven areas, covering topics like technical regulations, information and guidance, news, surveys, lists of acronyms, and discussion forums, and "Free info for EHS professionals" žfree downloadable clip-art and miscellaneous materials for safety. The site also has a "What's New on the EHSO web site" feature which provides a quick guide to the new information added. The site does not make much use of graphics and links, but there are a few good ones, e.g. for trainers interested in CBT or e-learning, advice on creating web pages is available from the link: http://www.free-webmaster-resources.com/. information.

http://www.trainingworld.co.uk/healthmenu.htm
Although this site sells training courses, it is worth mentioning as it provides descriptions of these courses, their aims and a breakdown of what they cover. If you are creating a new course, this breakdown would give them a good idea of what to include in it. The list of courses is very comprehensive.

http://www.activephase.com/demo/
Registration required to gain the full benefit of this web site. It is worth registering to view this demonstration of an active training course. It will suggest ideas to a trainer interested in designing an interactive CBT course. However, this site serves no other purpose, and download times are excessive.

http://www.nsc.org/
This National Safety Council web site is quite comprehensive, with resources on safety, health and environmental topics, training, products, publications and contacts. Its training web page details upcoming important seminars and courses. However, the main reason the site is useful is because it gives detailed descriptions of what the trainee will explore in each course. Topics are clearly laid out and download time is minimal, which adds to the overall usability of the site.

http://siri.uvm.edu/ftp/ppt/powerpt.html
This excellent web page provides 78 free PowerPoint presentations, which you can download or view. A good example is the "Chemical Spills" presentation, which details regulations, hazards, prevention and procedures. Links: none, but even so this is a very useful site.

http://www.safety-osha-training.com/gwp/healthsafety.htm
This site gives links on Health and Safety training topics: available courses, authoring your own courses, management of the training process, delivery of training, investment issues, and technical issues. Although the site sells courses, it gives an overview, topic list and performance objectives of each one. News and ten-day free trials are also available. Navigation is simple in this well structured site but links are minimal.

http://www.hse.gov.uk/hsehome.htm
This regularly up-dated Health and Safety Executive (HSE) site is one of the best EU sites available to health and safety trainers. It informs of current events, press releases, research, statistics and information on HSE statistics. However its main pages of interest include http://www.hse.gov.uk/policy/outline.htm. This gives an overview of requirements for competence and training in health and safety. The page http://www.hse.gov.uk/policy/webindex.htm gives a comprehensive list and descriptions of the regulations and codes of practices that all health and safety trainers should know. Navigation of this site is excellent: there is a good search engine and a "Signpost Guide to the HSE web site" feature, which gives an alphabetical list of the subjects to be found.

http://www.pp.okstate.edu/ehs/index.htm
This site received the 1998 CSHEMA Home Page Award and really is an excellent resource for trainers. The safety-training page is most beneficial. It contains an online safety library, http://www.pp.okstate.edu/ehs/MODULES/Home.htm, which invites you to use handouts on their complete selection of health and safety topics. A good example of a topic is http://www.pp.okstate.edu/ehs/MODULES/ppe.htm. The website states that many handouts are not copyright and may be used freely by anyone. The safety manual page gives a list of manuals and programs available on various topics e.g. "Conducting a Training Session", http://www.pp.okstate.edu/ehs/HAZCOM/manual/hc-trng2.htm. Links: another feature of this outstanding site is its links, including links to free training resources.

http://www.osha.gov/
This site belongs to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration department of the US government. Besides information bulletins, information on events, publications and regulations, this web site features a good online library containing various health and safety manuals and other data. The entire manuals are online, therefore providing an efficient free resource to trainers.

http://www.hazard.com/
This site provides good safety information and training resources. It has an online library, safety graphics and a well-categorised, complete list of links. In fact the links available on this site is one of its best features. The online library, found at:

http://www.hazard.com/library/library.html, provides further help to the Health and Safety trainer. It contains numerous text articles, PowerPoint files and graphics files. However, the document information has not been updated since June 1998.

www.worldsafety.com
This web site provides free resources for Health and Safety professionals. It has a good news section but, as with many other sites in this field, its value lies in its ability to provide trainers with efficient links to other sites. It contains a new link library, an "industry hot sites" section and a good search engine.

http://www.fire.org.uk/hse.htm, is an example of the vast array of health and safety links, put into order of country: is very comprehensive and supplies much helpful information to the trainer.

http://www.instant-training.co.uk/index.html
This UK training web site contains information relevant to trainers split into areas such as "Training Courses", "Why Train?" and "Helping Hand". The "Helping Hand" page provides free information sheets on various training and safety-related subjects. They have also included online versions, for previewing before downloading. For example, the manual-handling information sheet, http://www.instant-training.co.uk/images/pdf/ismanh.pdf

http://www.free-training.com/
This is an excellent resource for trainers. It provides free Internet training programs. These are complete programs made available by the companies and organizations that sponsor the site. There is also a free multimedia course development guide. Part of the extensive list of topics covered can be viewed at http://www.free-training.com/osha/othersites.htm. Some of the programs allow the user to choose an interactive version which gives them feedback e.g. http://www.pp.okstate.edu/ehs/modules3/back/back-a.htm. These programs are ready for use in training but are also useful in informing trainers about CBT and e-learning.

http://www.hsa.ie/osh/
Home page of the Irish Health and Safety Authority. It features a wide range of the Health and Safety Authority's publications in full, which can either be accessed immediately or in the case of the larger ones downloaded in PDF format.

http://www.hse-ni.org.uk/
The site of the Northern Ireland Health and Safety Authority features similar content to its English and Republic of Ireland counterparts. Its information is organised into small blocks and tables, with additional features such as explanations of hazard symbols.

http://www.hse.gov.uk/hsehome.htm
The British Health and Safety Authority Home page. It contains comprehensive and well-organised prescriptive information on the dangers of working in confined spaces . The site has a good index of the range of leaflets they have available. While the organisation also runs commercial training courses and sells videos and books, their free information is easy to find and can be accessed directly from the homepage.

http://www.pp.okstate.edu/ehs/index.htm
An excellent collection of well-structured online Health and Safety training courses is available free here. All the courses are clearly mapped out in links from the beginning on the left of each page so users can see at a glance how far they have left to go. The site also has an extensive online training library resource. All material can be easily accessed through the homepage.

http://www.osc.olathe.k12.ks.us/training/
Named a "star site" by www.safetyinfo.com. There is a two-hour online Asbestos Awareness Training Module with a quiz at the end, available in English and Spanish.

http://www.ehsn.com/
this site is mostly commercially orientated but has a small number of easy-to- read, bulleted articles about topics such as how to encourage the use of safety equipment in the workplace. Some of the instructional material is misleadingly in the NEWS section. Contains twenty pages of links, far too much for anyone to use practically. These should either be reorganised according to subject areas or else cut down to the most relevant material available.

http://www.agius.com/hew/resource/index.htm
This site has an extensive index of articles on health and safety. The articles tend to contain a great deal of technical information so may be inappropriate for general purposes. Graphics are used to illustrate hazards in workplace.

http://www.ccohs.ca/
This site contains a great deal of useful information, but it is difficult to actually get to it. On the Home page choose Internet Directory. The other options, such as Education and Training or Enquiries Service refer either to offline training services or contain irrelevant information. The index contains a wide range of topics including biosafety, toxicology and risk management. They consist of a mixture of original material and links to related sites

http://www.ishn.com/
The Homepage is distracting because of the large number of animated advertisements. However, the site has some reasonable content. Safety Training Tips contains articles on topics such as how to deal with "repeated offenders" in workplace accidents. The Resources section contains a mixture of practical articles and surveys, interviews, and profiles. Also included is an Ask the Experts section where safety experts will reply to your questions by email, although they "cannot guarantee every question will be answered".

www.ehso.com/guidance.htm
Free environmental health and safety information online.

http://www.healthandsafety.co.uk/inflib.htm
This health and safety site initially seems at first to be completely commercial, but after a simple registration process there is a wide variety of material available. However the links to different pages are grouped together in a dense justified paragraph. Most of the content relates to health and safety in industrial workplaces. It also contains information about legal health and safety requirements. Most of the articles are well structured, with the longer ones containing links to different sections.

http://www.fire.org.uk/
This is the site of the British Fire Service. While not primarily focussed on health and safety training it does contain relevant pages such as Public Information & Fire Safety Advice. However, a lot of the content is organised by journal, with no comprehensive indexing.

http://hazmat.dot.gov/
This page for the American Office of Hazardous Materials Safety contains material on topics such as hazard management. The links on the site's homepage are a little confusing as they are presented in a cluster of icons designed to look like warning signs.

http://oshweb.me.tut.fi/cgi-bin/oshweb.pl
Does not contain any original material but has a broad spectrum of links to information about industrial health and safety. Much of the material is very technical and is clearly aimed at specialised personnel, for example,
http://www.osha-slc.gov/OshStd_data/1910_0103.html

http://www.baylor.edu/~Charles_Kemp/ice_breakers.htm
This site contains training materials for lay health promoter training. These materials are not intended to take the place of the services of physicians, nurse practitioners, or other health professionals. There is a list of eight sample games and their descriptions.

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Multimedia & Activity Packs

Video

The following are a selection of videos available from the BBC (BBC for Business, Woodland, 80, Wood Lane, London W12 OTT: www.bbcworldwide.com/bbc4biz):

Health and Safety - Display Screen Equipment; price Ł195
Health and Safety - Driving; price Ł195
Health and Safety - Fire; price Ł195
Health and Safety - Hazardous Substances; price Ł195
Health and Safety - Introduction; price Ł195
Health and Safety - Lifting and Carrying; price Ł195
Health and Safety - Office Safety; price Ł195
Health and Safety - Other Risks; price Ł195
Health and Safety - Series; price Ł695

The following are some video training packages in the Gower range:

Health & Safety; safety and the supervisor - price Ł974
Health & Safety Hygiene; safe food-handling practices - price Ł584

CD Rom / DVD

There has been an explosion of subjects available on CD ROM in the last few years. CD ROM provides access to very large information banks, with text, colour, graphics, animation, including video footage and sound.

For example, the complete Encyclopaedia Britannica comes on two CD ROM discs for a cost of around Ł100. DVD is an acronym for Digital Versatile Disk. DVD is expected to replace CD ROM in the next few years because of its superior storage capacity with up to 25 times that of an equivalent CD ROM disc.

The top CD ROM training programmes were identified giving title, supplier and price. The following are some CD ROM packages available at the IOL Company in Sandyford Industrial Estate:

Health & Safety
Provides standard modules covering basic Health & Safety work skills.
£1,415
Keeping yourself Safe
An employee's guide to keeping yourself Safe at work. This series provides the Manager and employee with the essential Facts to keep the workplace safe and Comply with current EU health/safety Legislation.
£325
The Safety Authorities
A manager's guide to dealing with the Safety authorities
£325
Improving Safety
A manager's guide to improving the Organisation's safety record
£325

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